Re: ports D3NT problem

Hi Bill
Sad to hear it. Personally I have used all of them and found that D3 NT is
fine but here again I do not use the .NET stuff. I can take you to very
large sites that threw U2 out in favour of JBASE because of issues like
flaky indices and insufficient integration. All of which may be fixed by
now.. I agree with Mark until somebody produces the WHERE then it is all so
much hot air. It could be a rarely used program locking up, it could be a
rogue auditor messing things up as I had a few weeks ago.
I thoroughly agree that putting Linux in an NT shop would be ridiculous.
All said and done long term support is the real key and hopefully RD have
turned the corner albeit too late for you. My implication was that change
on the off chance that it fixes something is extremely dubious especially
when one considers things like case-sensitivity and if I ever meet the prat
that decided to build in undocumented screen display characteristics into
the Universe Input@ statement I will place my boot very firmly where the sun
does not shine. It took me ages to work out why my screens were blowing up
and when reported they claimed it was a "feature" and if I did not like it
just use PRINT @;INPUT which would of course introduce a further error into
an already unnecessary mess.
Peter McMurray
"Bill H" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Peter:

We converted from D3 to UniData, which gives us personal experience with
this matter (this was much more difficult than converting to UniVerse).
We don't have "massive headaches"; which seems to go contrary to your
statement of fact. Because of this, we don't consider ourselves
delusional to any extent defined by "...living in LaLa land". :-)

It is true, as Mark Brown notes, one often trades one set of problems for
others. An extremely large group of problems, relating to D3/NT's
inherent lack of stability, were simply resolved. Also, we weren't going
to try to convince our clients to add a Linux server into their networks
(to accomodate a D3/NT -> D3/Linux conversion), nor were we inclined to
add to our support duties Linux admin support, which is what always
happens to us with Linux.

Our integration of the dbms with .NET technologies are much more stable
now than with D3. In fact, RD had no intention of supporting our
comitment to their products, and told us as much. So we left, and
recommend others do the same if they find themselves in the same position
we were in.

My $.02...

Bill

"Excalibur" <excalibur21@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi
If anyone thinks that converting to U2 from D3 is going to give them
anything more than a massive set of headaches they live in LaLa land.
Peter McMurray

<davet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Nov 9, 10:48 pm, Ross Ferris <ro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
D3/NT 7.2.1 was one of the "best" releases of D3/NT ever .... even a
minor upgrade to this is likely to help, but given that D3/NT is
current @ 7.5.x, there are literally HUNDREDS of enhancements & fixes,
and the only way you are likely to see if this upgrade DOES fix your
poroblem would be to JUST DO IT.

Alternatively, a weekly reboot (over the wekened) would "solve" the
problem quite nicely too

I know this isn't a "nice", but I'm afraid that I've come to resort to
"whatever works" when it comes to D3/NT ... I get more sleep that way!

<AD>You can always convert your D3 applications to Universe and
eliminate these problems.</AD>

Dave
www.sysmarkinfo.com







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